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, SPECIFICATION forming pmt oft Letters Patent No. 531,561, dated December 25, 1894.

.Application filed October Z4, 1893. Serial No. 488,978- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO `E. RHOADES, of Hopedale, county of Worcester, State of 'Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Separators vfor Spinning-Rai-ls, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specicatiomlike letters on the drawings representing like parts. v

This invention has for its object to improve the sO-called separators employed in connection with ring spinning and twisting frames to prevent the yarn of adjacent spindles striking together owing to ballooning, as it is called, thus breaking down ends.

My improved separator is composed essentially of a head having suitable stops, and a plurality of arms madeof -wire bent into loop form and pivoted ontosaid head, the stops determining the normal positions of the arms, one arm being raised after the other in succession in unison with the rising ring rail, as will be hereinafter described.

Figure 1 in front elevation shows a sufcient portion of a spinning or twisting frame with my improved separators added to enable my inventionto be understood. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the parts shown in Fig. l.

f Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are vertical sections showing the 'ring rail and separators in different positions. Fig. 6 is a top or plan view much enla-rged of one of my separators and part 'of the usual sustaining rod. Fig. 7 is asection in the dotted line w Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a view looking from'the right in Fig. 6; and Fig. 9 is a view of the parts shown in Fig. 6 looking from thefleft. ,y

- The frame-work A; the roller beam B; the bolster or spindle rail C; the spindle O; the ring rail D, having rings D for the guidance of usual travelers; the stand E depending "from the roller beam, and the supporting rods a, a, vsecured thereto, there being two or more of such stands located atproper distances apart as desired; and the guide-boards b having the guide eyes b are and may be all as common inrin g spinning and twisting frames, and in practice said ring rail may be raised and lowered and the spindles be rotated in any usual manner, the particular movements imparted to the ring rail depending upon the shape of the bobbin or the shape of the yarnload to be built thereon.

My newly devised compound separator consists essentially of two members d, d', herein represented as a Wirebent into the form of loops, the uppermost member d being pref-V erably wider or larger to let the member d pass up through it. These members d, d', are pivoted one above the other and are adapted to be operated in succession, as the ring rail rises, said members descending preferably by gravity. The two members d, d', are mounted on suitable journals d2, d3, formed on block, d6, constituting heads which are clamped by suitable screws as d4 to the rods a, a, said heads being adjustable on the said rods so that the separators may be put in just thel desired position with relation to the spindles.

In operation let it be supposed that the ring rail is in its lowest position, as represented in Fig. 3. As the ring rail ascends from the position Figs. land 3 it will moet the separator member d and turn it up into the position shown in Fig. 4, the said member passing the member d', and as the rail continues to ascend from the position Fig. 4 it will strike the second member d', of the separator and elevate it into position Fig 5.

' The frame of wires on which the separators are strung, instead of being mounted asl Making the members d, OZ of wire and in loop form reduces theirweight to the minimum and consequently the strain on the ring rail in lifting the members is but very slight.

The block d5 has a stoph to determine the extent of upward'movement of member d', as

when it is turned fully back, and ythis block also has stop shoulders h', h', see Figs. 6 and 8, to determine the descent of the member d. The block d6 has a stop h3 to determine the 5 descent of the member d of the separator.

Each member d, d constitutes, it may be said, 'an arm.

By the term wire I mean to include metal in any cross section, round, or otherwise, in 1o which metal is usually rolled or drawn.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 

